I deleted an ACF group but am still the fields in the editor

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This topic contains 3 replies, has 2 voices.

Last updated by Shekhar Bhandari 1 year ago.

Assisted by: Shekhar Bhandari.

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April 3, 2024 at 1:09 am #15475605
boB-6	Tell us what you are trying to do? I am trying to translate individual pages but I am seeing duplicate ACF fields. I don't have any .json files that are duplicating the content. I did import ACF fields and also did a WP import which duplicated the field groups initially, but I have since deleted the duplicate. I believe WPML is somehow picking up the deleted field group Is there any documentation that you are following? Support forums Is there a similar example that we can see? What is the link to your site?
April 3, 2024 at 5:10 am #15475964
Shekhar Bhandari WPML Supporter since 03/2015 Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Kathmandu (GMT+05:45)	Hello @boB-6, Welcome to WPML support. I'd be happy to help you with this. How are you deleting the fields? It looks like when you are deleting the fields, the fields aren't deleted from the database because those fields appear in the Advanced Translation editor. We have a similar issue reported here: https://wpml.org/forums/topic/deleted-changed-acf-flexible-content-still-showing-in-ate/ Can you check if it's similar? I also suggest you reach out to the ACF team and see if there is a workaround to delete the data from the database, once done, WPML will show it accordingly in ATE after a page update. Look forward to your reply. Thanks
April 3, 2024 at 1:45 pm #15478765
boB-6	This does look like the same issue. I will follow up with ACF. Please do let me know if you hear of any solved on y'alls side.
April 4, 2024 at 2:59 am #15480839
Shekhar Bhandari WPML Supporter since 03/2015 Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Kathmandu (GMT+05:45)	Hello there, We are working on removing unused post meta from ATE and it's in our developers queue. I will update you further as soon as I will have more info. Thanks